I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early,… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
There was never any problem with racism when I was growing up - which some find surprising. Maybe the Welsh are a… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
We have to remember that Dr. King was not an idle dreamer. Dr. King was a man of action. If Dr. King… — Marc Morial Copy Share Image
But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
The lunatic racist left is starting to lose. So, as is always the case, change the rules of the game, obfuscate, argue… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
I think the music defends myself. I don't think anyone should put a race on any genre. It's just a way of… — Murda Beatz Copy Share Image
It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
“Having judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of sitting down, of resting,… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“WHITE AMERICANS HAVE A VERY UNUSUAL SENSE OF HISTORY. They make it up as they go along, constantly revising to suit their… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“There are races that do not enslave, do not slay, do not war. There are races which do not lie or falsify.… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“When you find yourself judging, yourself or others, move on to something else. It’s a hallmark symptom of mindlessness to be constantly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
The white men of the South had better make up their minds that the blacks will remain in the South just as… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy… the economies that are going… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The power of stereotypes like those Voltaire expressed helps to explain why the ghetto gates were slow to open. It may also… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
When the media and even people within our own party treat minorities as a single voting block, it is a shocking display… — Leslyn Lewis Copy Share Image
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
You know, the vibrancy of the black church, the black businesses that employ so many people, the opportunities that so many families… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
I always thought that no matter what kind of work people did, they should involve themselves totally with all the discrimination they… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
A white girl disappears from a white prep school in a white suburb. Nobody knows what happened to her. The overall whiteness… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
To be white in America is to have the confidence to say, without a second thought: this space, this neighborhood, this city,… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
Every race I've been in, I calculated race into the equation. If you're in America, you calculate it into the equation. It… — Harvey Gantt Copy Share Image
It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
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